Jalebi - ICC for month of August

Jalebi is one of my favorite sweet. This is for the Indian cooking challenge for the month of August. I have not tried Jalebi myself at home. When i saw this challenge i was happy and felt like trying it immediately. Main thing in making jalebi is mixing the dough. We have to be careful, I prepared with great care and succeeded in my challenge. This is a real challenge for me. Here we go in to the recipe. Happy to post this sweet recipe. And I’m sharing this recipe for my 102 followers and thanks for following me. And Even i share this recipe for my Blog which has crossed 200 post... thanks all for supporting me...This Jalebi is for u all... Enjoy ....

Ingredients

All purpose flour / Maida - 100 gm

Curds / Yoghurt - 1 cup

Lime juice - 1 tsp

Cornstarch - 30 gm

Hot oil - 1 tbsp

A large pinch of saffron color

For Sugar syrup

Sugar - 1 cup

Water - ½ cup

few pinch of saffron

Oil for deep frying

Method

For mixing Batter

In a bowl, take all the ingredients and whisk the curds, lime juice, flour, cornstarch, saffron color and the hot oil together to make a thick batter. Set aside to ferment overnight.

Making sugar syrup

Take sugar with water in a hard bottom vessel  and heat till sugar dissolves. Stir well and Bring to a boil till you reach a light syrupy consistency. Add little saffron to it. Keep  it warm.

To press out the jalebi in oil

Heat oil in a wide mouth pan and keep it over medium-low flame. Spoon batter into a piping bag or zip-top bag with one corner snipped off or oil/sauce dispenser with a medium size nossel . Put the batter into hot oil like making murukku (be really careful) and fry till crisp and pale golden. Now add the fried jalebis into warm sugar syrup for a few minutes remove with a slotted spoon and serve warm.